Biography

Professor Matthew Fuchter obtained his first class honours degree (MSci in Chemistry) from the University of Bristol in 2002, where he was awarded the Richard N. Dixon prize as well as an undergraduate Scholarship and several faculty commendations.

In January 2006 he completed his PhD research entitled “Synthetic Studies on Porphyrazines: Biological Applications and New Preparative Methods” under the supervision of Professor Anthony G. M. Barrett, FRS FMedSci (Imperial College London, UK) and in close collaboration with Professor Brian Hoffman (Northwestern University, USA). Following a short spell as a Research Associate at Imperial College, Professor Fuchter was appointed as a CSIRO Research Fellow at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia as well as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he worked with Professor Andrew B Holmes, FRS.

He briefly took up an independent Fellowship position in 2007 at the School of Pharmacy (University of London), before being appointed as a Lecturer in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry at Imperial College London in July 2008. He was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer in July 2012, Reader in September 2015 and Professor in September 2018. In 2014 he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize, as well as being admitted to the Royal Society of Chemistry as a Fellow. In 2015, he was selected as a Thieme Chemistry Journal Awardee by the Editorial Board for the Thieme Chemistry journals and received a Diploma for being the 'most meritorious runner-up' of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia (2015). In 2017, he won an Imperial College President’s Excellence in Research Award and a President’s Medal (together with Professors Tony Barrett, Charles Coombes and Simak Ali) for Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He was recently awarded the prestigious 2018 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry and a 5-year EPSRC Established Career Fellowship.